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Covid and Trumps handling of it.
But energy was high in the anti Trump camp anyway with BLM protests.
So saying the Dems need to move more right is the opposite of the right lesson. Just look at political donations to Bernie.. from across the US. There are no moderate republicans, they all stayed with trump, there is a huge untapped electorate in the US that wants something else, and I'd argue it is more left social democrats and what they bring.... But the capital class will never allow it in the US. The moment you talk wealth distribution, even MSNBC and such call you communist.
Edit: oh and Biden should have taken action on Trumps fascism on day 1. Chuck him in jail pending trial and get it over with. Everyone except a small part of his base distanced themselves from him, the time was in the first 100 days of taking office, but they did NOTHING.. they might as well have stormed the capitol themselves by now.
I honestly expected him to just pardon Trump to "Let the nation heal"
And if it had been a magical third Obama term, I'm sure that's exactly what would have happened.
Sure as shit would have happened if trump ever sat down and shut the fuck up. That's why the ball started rolling so late. They wanted trump to go away on his own so they didn't have to do their jobs.
Why can I too easily imagine an alternate universe where Trump stays quiet, gets pardoned by Biden, a Trump-Wannabe shows up on the 2024 ticket, and Harris campaigns with Trump the same way Hillary rehabilitated Bush?
That would have been the wrong lesson from Watergate.
They learn every wrong lesson from history. Republicans see history and go "Let's do it again, but even worse for the average person!" and Democrats see history and go "Let's try it again, it didn't work last time, but surely 3rd time is the charm."